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 | In March of 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the United States and the Imperial Japan. After Mount Suribachi, a volcano on Iwo Jima, was captured by the Navy, six men raised the Flag of the United States. The Photo of this act became very popular and became the sample for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. |  | 07/25/2006 | 993 | 



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 | Smoke rising from Mount Suribachi as it is hit by aircraft bombs and ships' guns on 19 February 1945, probably just before U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
The rocks of Tobiishi Point, at Iwo Jima's southern end, are in the lower left. |  | 10/27/2008 | 169 | 
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 | The Texas Air Museum is home to the bridge and island of the Vietnam era helicopter carrier IWO JIMA (LPH-2) . It rises over 100 feet above the south Texas plain. This carrier was involved with the pickup of the crew of the ill-fated Apollo 13 crew. |  | 09/26/2007 | 290 | 



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 | This photo was taken before the invasion of the island began. |  | 02/22/2007 | 644 | 



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 | Aerial of Mt. Suribachi from above before the assault on the island. |  | 02/12/2007 | 835 | 



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 | USS Tripoli was the fifth Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (helicopter). Decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on September 15, 1995, TRIPOLI has since then beeb laid up at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. |  | 09/20/2005 | 354 | 



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 | memorial to murdered Jews in Germany
Info provided by 40jam:
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre of Berlin is Germany's central Holocaust memorial site, a place for remembrance and commemoration of six million victims.
The Memorial consists of the Field of Stelae designed by architect Peter Eisenman and the underground Information Centre and is maintain... |  | 08/06/2005 | 2,555 | 



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 | The Passchendaele Memorial is a Canadian war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps in the Second Battle of Passchendaele of world War I. The memorial is located on the former site of Crest Farm, an objective captured by the 4th Canadian Division during the assault of 30 October 1917.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passchendaele_Memorial |  | 08/14/2009 | 35 | 



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 | The Washington Memorial, is one of the tallest buildings in DC (District of Columbia). It was made to the memorial of George Washington. |  | 05/24/2007 | 1,481 | 



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 | The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium dedicated to the commemoration of British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line. D... |  | 08/14/2009 | 35 | 



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 | Vietnam B-52 Arc Light memorial, Andeson AFB Guam |  | 01/27/2007 | 962 | 



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 | B-52 memorial: Air Force Academy Entry, Colorado Springs, CO |  | 07/14/2005 | 1,298 | 



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